Saturday, 9 August, 2025 , 10:16 AFP — A Syrian government official said Saturday that authorities would not participate in planned talks in Paris on integrating the Kurdish semi-autonomous administration into the Syrian state and demanded future negotiations be held in Damascus.

Friday, 8 August, 2025 , 10:05 AFP — A bill in Iraq that would further formalise the role -- and perhaps, the autonomy -- of a powerful coalition of pro-Iran former paramilitaries has sparked a heated debate, fanned in part by US pressure.

Friday, 1 August, 2025 , 02:31 AFP — A senior leader of Turkey's beleaguered main opposition party accused the government of fabricating enemies in a politically motivated crackdown to reassert control after its election defeat last year, in an interview with AFP.

Wednesday, 30 July, 2025 , 17:05 AFP — A choking heatwave left astonished locals in southeastern Turkey calling for state help to pay their air conditioning bills after the temperature surged past 50C.

Tuesday, 29 July, 2025 , 22:22 AFP — An American citizen child has been repatriated from a camp in northeast Syria for "unification" with family, the US State Department said Tuesday.

Tuesday, 29 July, 2025 , 05:55 AFP — Kemal Ozdemir looked up at the bare peaks of Mount Cilo in Turkey's Kurdish majority southeast: "There were glaciers 10 years ago," he recalled under a cloudless sky.

Monday, 28 July, 2025 , 15:49 AFP — Firefighters battled blazes across Turkey and Bulgaria on Monday as a deadly heatwave went into a second week around much of the Mediterranean.

Monday, 28 July, 2025 , 14:37 AFP — Firefighters battled blazes across Turkey on Monday as the country sweltered in a summer heatwave across much of the Mediterranean, with wildfires leading to at least 14 deaths in the country in the past week.

Friday, 25 July, 2025 , 17:50 AFP — Syria, France and the United States said they agreed Friday to convene "as soon as possible" talks in Paris to integrate the autonomous Kurdish administration into the Syrian state.

Thursday, 24 July, 2025 , 17:37 AFP — Syria has rejected Kurdish demands to keep their weapons, a government source said Thursday, as a new round of talks on the Kurds' integration into the state was set to begin.